User talk:Malcolm/Archive 14

Arceus? Bah!

The day Arceus gets to keep his page is the day my beloved Squirtle and Lapras keep their pages. And I support the decisions here so that ain't happenin. :) -WarthogDemon 17:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Request information on reverted edit

Hi, it Spitfire19, I would like to request information on why you reverted my edit on the SSBB page. It was thourly discussed on it's Talk page and seemed appropriate. Thanks. Spitfire 23:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, almost everyone agreed that a list of stages is unencyclopedic; you failed to garner a consensus. — Malcolm (talk) 23:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

CASA of Maryland

This group is immensely significant in the State of Maryland and particularly in politics in Montgomery and Prince George's County Maryland. Please leave the article "CASA of Maryland" as it will be significantly updated. They do "assert significance" as they were just given $30-millions by Governor Martin O'Malley, to develop a multicultural center in Langley Park. thardman22 23:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

The problem was that the article did not assert signifigance, not the organization. If you recreate it again, please assert its notability. — Malcolm (talk) 23:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

How about I insert a statement to the effect of "CASA is highly notable in its influence in current Maryland politics, having a profound influence on a wide range of policy ranging from law-enforcement to education. In Maryland politics, CASA is the equivalent to MoveOn.org in national politics."

If that will work, please restore the article and I shall add that sentence. Thanks for the clarification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thardman22 (talk • contribs) 23:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, "highly notable" seems a bit POV, but it should assert notability if you change it a bit (it may be prod'd or AFD'd, though or arrow'd You can just create a new version, the non-notable versions shouldn't be restored. — Malcolm (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

And you need reliable sources. — Malcolm (talk) 00:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Will "the Washington Post" and the "University of Maryland" and the official website of the State of Maryland be considered "reliable sources"?

And please excuse me, I am still struggling with the markup language and the standard format. Ideally I will just do content and then worry about the format. Attributions are included to some degree already in standard reference format, mostly to a Washington Post article. Look for the cite in parens. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thardman22 (talk • contribs) 00:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

It depends on its context in the Washington Post article. Do you have a link to it? — Malcolm (talk) 00:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a lot for the assist with the markup, if that was you. Thardman22 00:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902205.html

Thardman22 00:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, wasn't me (though I happily will help if you want me to). Are there any other secondary sources besides the ones you mentioned? — Malcolm (talk) 01:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Can you please see the page and follow the links? For me it's getting sort of late to do serious editing. I am on the US East Coast (UTC -4 I think) and I would like to pick this up tomorrow without having to totally re-create it. Also if you want, just google "CASA maryland" and you will get page after page. My intention is to sort them as to relevance and longevity of attributions. My regards and thanks for your patience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thardman22 (talk • contribs) 01:45, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

It needs to be cleaned up, but it now apparently establishes its notability. Sorry for not seeing the external links section. — Malcolm (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I will be cleaning it up and adding to it, proper format will be established etc. Thanks much! Thardman22 16:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Rklawton

Thanks for the reversion, but I'd like that comment to remain until the matter regarding the offending editor has been resolved. Thanks again, though. Rklawton 18:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

OK. — Malcolm (talk) 18:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

User:JunKazamaFan‎

Could you please take a look at this userpage. It contains a personal attack to User:TTN. The Prince of Darkness 20:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

It's acceptable to simply blank it and warn the user, isn't it? I've done that before... -WarthogDemon 20:20, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

If it's a personal attack, it has to be removed. If the user keeps reverting it, he/she should be blocked. The Prince of Darkness 20:33, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I've just brought it up at WP:ANI. -WarthogDemon 20:33, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Help Please

Ok....we've had some disagreements, but right now, I need your help. Over, well the article you tried to delete a while ago. The Paper Mario Character page was merged, without any discussion about it. User:TTN merged it, without leaving a notice anywhere, in fact, TTN put a merge discussion, on the page that it was being merged into, not the page itself. Also, I wasn't aware of this, because he discourteously didn't leave a message on my talk page. Anyway, can I count on your help for trying to restore the article? Or is your allegiance to him, as is the allegiance of other people. C. Pineda (クリス) 01:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I've mostly agreed with him in the past, but I'm not sure about the redirecting of that list. I'm not going to revert seeing as I really, really hate edit wars, but I do disagree with it being merged like that. It's common courtesy to tell the author or at least someone involved with the article about a merge tag, but not an absolute requirement; however, I believe it should have been done in a situation like this, seeing its potential controversy.

Just because a merge discussion is unanswered for a week does not mean the article should be merged, and I fail to see TTN's logic in doing that although it seems obvious you would have objected (and others, as demonstrated in the AfD) to it.

Though about that last part: the discussion for a merge is supposed to be held on the target article, not the article that's going to be merged. — Malcolm (talk) 02:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

How does one go about suggestion and UN-merge? The only way I can think of is by using this. However, this could backfire. Do you think a discussion on the target page will be enough? C. Pineda (クリス) 06:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

What would you do at CfD? It's for discussing categories. I'd suggest a discussion on the talk page and leave notes on related Wikiprojects like WT:NES and WT:CVG. — Malcolm (talk) 20:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Honestly

I'd rather see that at least one other voice has been heard. Otherwise you are going solely by the nominator and that's not consensus in any shape or form. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 02:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

SSBB

FrosticeBlade 20:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC) On videogamecentral.com i saw a new box art for Super Smash Brothers Brawl but its kinda small to see.

Do you have a link to it? It's probably fake, but I'd like to see it. — Malcolm (talk) 00:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

heres the link its kinda small http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gamesusainc_1972_15098410" —Preceding unsigned comment added by FrosticeBlade (talk • contribs) 00:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's fake. It's been discussed a lot before on the talk page. It was originally from vgboxart.com. — Malcolm (talk) 00:43, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks for clearing that up FrosticeBlade 20:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for your time. --MrBubbles 20:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Re

Of course. I'm well aware of the 3RR rule, and I assure you, I had no intention of re-reverting it again. In fact, I was about to warn MrBubbles about 3RR as well. My apologies for any inconvenience :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dengarde (talk • contribs) 20:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Nights

I was on http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=nights&lid=gp_nights&lpos=nav_pldwnlst and it said Nights for wii fall 2007 but on here it says dec something 2007 which one is right. --FrosticeBlade 21:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Probably the WP article considering it is sourced. - Rjd0060 21:08, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

They got it from the same site I went to and it says fall 2007--FrosticeBlade 21:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

The release date's apparently been changing a lot...so yeah, the link's right (so is the article, now). — Malcolm (talk) 21:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok thank you, you helped a lot--FrosticeBlade 21:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Dolcett

Why did you delete the talk about dolcett? What was there was a nice way to say that the people here we rather short sighted in deleting it. You have tons of crap about comic books with no outside references, just other comic books... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.241.172.186 (talk) 01:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Carmenelectra

Thanks for unblocking her. I am very unhappy with the way Irishguy handled this. She was clearly not deliberately trying to misuse a username (not being a Playboy fan I'd never heard of the "notable" Carmen Electra"), and is a very productive new editor. Irishguy didn't make any attempt to talk to her before blocking, and he didn't respond to her messages or rename request. It's no way to treat new editors. DuncanHill 00:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

But please don't suggest people go for a usurption as we tend to turn them down if they are new editors - you need to be an "established editor" to usurp a username. FWIW I've not heard of Carmen Electra either. Secretlondon 01:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized that mistake a little after I granted the unblock. Carmen Electra is pretty well-known in the US, though. — Malcolm (talk) 01:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Many Thanks

Many thanks for removing the CSD tag for [[Casa of maryland|CASA of Maryland] and for the invaluable pointers to Clue. Regards, Thardman22 21:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC) ]

being deleted

The template on Template:EUPolitics messes up pages like Government of France, know how to fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.83.236.152 (talk) 01:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me, just needed to add noinclude tags. — Malcolm (talk) 01:58, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

eupolitics

Hi,

you decided that the template EUpolitics should be deleted. On what basis did you decide that the discussion led to that decision. I see only one supporter and one opponenent. Electionworld Talk? 07:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion discussions are not votes. If there were 20 keeps with poor arguments, the page would probably be deleted. As for this specific closure, flags in templates should rarely be used and are considered unnecessary. — Malcolm (talk) 18:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:EUPolitics

I was testing my subst's on this template to get it ready for its deletion, specifically trying it out on the articles where it would ultimately end up. I couldn't get anything that I thought was usable (formatting, & other problems). My lack of techno-knowledge is showing :) If you'd be so kind as to suggest the specific action that you'd be looking for here, I'd be glad to do the application! SkierRMH 23:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Hm, could you be a little more specific? What exactly are you having trouble with, and any diffs? — Malcolm (talk) 23:54, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

D'oh! - ever try making something bleedin' simple 100% more complicated than it actually is? Figured it out when I realized it was being transcluded into the other templates... All done, ready to delete now!SkierRMH 03:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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